Systems and methods for harq transmission and retransmission using multiple code words

ABSTRACT

A user equipment (UE) in communication with a base station may utilize multiple code word (MCW) transmissions within a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. An original transmission has a first transport block allocated to a first code word and a second transport block allocated to a second code word. Each transport block includes multiple code blocks grouped into code block groups. The UE receives a negative acknowledgement indicating that a subset of the code block groups were not successfully received. The UE retransmits the subset of the code block groups on at least one of the first code word or the second code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process. At least one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in the retransmission than in the original transmission.

CLAIM OF PRIORITY UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 119

This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No.62/547,456, titled “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARQ TRANSMISSION ANDRETRANSMISSION USING MULTIPLE CODE WORDS,” filed Aug. 18, 2017, which isassigned to the assignee hereof, and incorporated herein by reference inits entirety.

BACKGROUND

Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to wirelesscommunication networks, and more particularly, to physical layertransmissions using multiple code words.

Wireless communication networks are widely deployed to provide varioustypes of communication content such as voice, video, packet data,messaging, broadcast, and so on. These systems may be multiple-accesssystems capable of supporting communication with multiple users bysharing the available system resources (e.g., time, frequency, andpower). Examples of such multiple-access systems include code-divisionmultiple access (CDMA) systems, time-division multiple access (TDMA)systems, frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) systems, orthogonalfrequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, and single-carrierfrequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems.

These multiple access technologies have been adopted in varioustelecommunication standards to provide a common protocol that enablesdifferent wireless devices to communicate on a municipal, national,regional, and even global level. For example, a fifth generation (5G)wireless communications technology (which can be referred to as newradio (NR)) is envisaged to expand and support diverse usage scenariosand applications with respect to current mobile network generations. Inan aspect, 5G communications technology can include: enhanced mobilebroadband addressing human-centric use cases for access to multimediacontent, services and data; ultra-reliable-low latency communications(URLLC) with certain specifications for latency and reliability; andmassive machine type communications, which can allow a very large numberof connected devices and transmission of a relatively low volume ofnon-delay-sensitive information. As the demand for mobile broadbandaccess continues to increase, however, further improvements in NRcommunications technology and beyond may be desired.

For example, for NR communications technology and beyond, currentmultiple code word retransmission solutions may not provide a desiredlevel of speed or customization for efficient operation. Thus,improvements in wireless communication operations may be desired.

SUMMARY

The following presents a simplified summary of one or more aspects inorder to provide a basic understanding of such aspects. This summary isnot an extensive overview of all contemplated aspects, and is intendedto neither identify key or critical elements of all aspects nordelineate the scope of any or all aspects. Its sole purpose is topresent some concepts of one or more aspects in a simplified form as aprelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.

In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method of wirelesscommunications including transmitting an original transmission in ahybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The originaltransmission has a first transport block allocated to a first code wordand a second transport block allocated to a second code word. Eachtransport block includes multiple code blocks grouped into code blockgroups. The method includes receiving a negative acknowledgementindicating that a subset of the code block groups were not successfullyreceived. The method includes retransmitting the subset of the codeblock groups on at least one of the first code word or the second codeword in a retransmission in the HARQ process. At least one code block isretransmitted on a different code word in the retransmission than in theoriginal transmission.

In another aspect, the present disclosure provides an apparatus forwireless communication. The apparatus may include a memory, atransceiver, and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory andthe transceiver. The processor may be configured to transmit an originaltransmission in a HARQ process. The original transmission may have afirst transport block allocated to a first code word and a secondtransport block allocated to a second code word, each transport blockincluding multiple code blocks grouped into code block groups. Theprocessor may be configured to receive a negative acknowledgmentindicating that a subset of the code block groups was not successfullyreceived. The processor may be configured to retransmit the subset ofthe code block groups on at least one of the first code word or thesecond code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process, wherein atleast one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in theretransmission than in the original transmission.

In another aspect, the disclosure provides another apparatus forwireless communication. The apparatus may include means for transmittingan original transmission in a HARQ process, the original transmissionhaving a first transport block allocated to a first code word and asecond transport block allocated to a second code word, each transportblock including multiple code blocks grouped into code block groups. Theapparatus may include means for receiving a negative acknowledgmentindicating that a subset of the code block groups was not successfullyreceived. The apparatus may include means for retransmitting the subsetof the code block groups on at least one of the first code word or thesecond code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process, wherein atleast one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in theretransmission than in the original transmission.

In another aspect, the disclosure provides a computer-readable mediumstoring computer code executable by a processor for wirelesscommunications. The computer-readable medium may include code totransmit an original transmission in a HARQ process, the originaltransmission having a first transport block allocated to a first codeword and a second transport block allocated to a second code word, eachtransport block including multiple code blocks grouped into code blockgroups. The computer-readable medium may include code to receive anegative acknowledgment indicating that a subset of the code blockgroups was not successfully received. The computer-readable medium mayinclude code to retransmit the subset of the code block groups on atleast one of the first code word or the second code word in aretransmission in the HARQ process, wherein at least one code block isretransmitted on a different code word in the retransmission than in theoriginal transmission

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the one or moreaspects comprise the features hereinafter fully described andparticularly pointed out in the claims. The following description andthe annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative featuresof the one or more aspects. These features are indicative, however, ofbut a few of the various ways in which the principles of various aspectsmay be employed, and this description is intended to include all suchaspects and their equivalents.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The disclosed aspects will hereinafter be described in conjunction withthe appended drawings, provided to illustrate and not to limit thedisclosed aspects, wherein like designations denote like elements, andin which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a wireless communication networkincluding at least one user equipment (UE) or base station having amultiple code word (MCW) hybrid repeat request (HARQ) componentconfigured according to this disclosure to retransmit a transmissionusing multiple code words.

FIG. 2 is an example HARQ process that maintains original code wordallocation.

FIG. 3 is an example HARQ process that proportionately balances codeblock groups across code words.

FIG. 4 is an example HARQ process that proportionately balances codeblocks across code words.

FIG. 5 is an example HARQ process using a single code word to retransmittransport blocks from two code words.

FIG. 6 is an example HARQ process using two code words to retransmit atransport block from a single code word.

FIG. 7 is an example HARQ process using new data indicators (NDI) toretransmit one transport block and also transmit a new transport block.

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of an example of a method of retransmitting atransmission in a HARQ process using multiple code words.

FIG. 9 is a flow diagram of an example of a method of retransmitting asubset of code block groups.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of example components of the UE of FIG.1; and

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of example components of the base stationof FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Various aspects are now described with reference to the drawings. In thefollowing description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specificdetails are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding ofone or more aspects. It may be evident, however, that such aspect(s) maybe practiced without these specific details. Additionally, the term“component” as used herein may be one of the parts that make up asystem, may be hardware, firmware, and/or software stored on acomputer-readable medium, and may be divided into other components.

The present disclosure generally relates to transmissions using multiplecode words (MCW). In wireless transmissions using multiple antennas,increased transmission rates may be achieved using spatial multiplexingvia different antennas or different groups of antennas (i.e., virtualantennas). Each virtual antenna may be associated with a code word (CW).In LTE systems, each code word may be assigned a transport block (TB).For hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) using multiple code words(MCW), if one of the transport blocks on a first CW is not receivedcorrectly, the transport block may be retransmitted on the first CW,while a second transport block that was successfully received on asecond CW may be replaced by new data. In LTE MCW transmission, whenbetween the two TBs, one decodes and the other fails, LTE supportsmixing the retransmission of the failed TB and the initial transmissionof another TB. LTE also supports the retransmission of the failed TBonly in SCW fashion.

In a 5G NR system, a TB may include multiple code block groups (CBG),which in turn may include multiple code blocks (CB). For a HARQ process,some of the CBG may be received successfully, while other CBG are notreceived successfully. A bitmap indicating the successfully received CBGmay be provided by the ACK/NACK. Accordingly, CBG level retransmissionmay be supported. That is, a retransmission for a HARQ process mayinclude only those CBG that were not successfully received. In a MCWtransmission, the unsuccessfully received CBG to be retransmitted may beunevenly divided among the TBs or CWs. Accordingly, a retransmissionmaintaining the CBGs on the original TBs and CWs may be less efficient.For example, the CW carrying the larger payload may be more likely toexperience errors than the CW carrying the smaller payload.

In an aspect, the present disclosure provides for HARQ retransmissionsof MCW transmissions where CW are decoupled from the original TB of thetransmission. Accordingly, a CBG or a CB may change CW for theretransmission. Therefore, the retransmission may be balanced with aproportionate payload size for each CW to improve performance.Additional features of the present aspects are described in more detailbelow with respect to FIGS. 1-11

It should be noted that the techniques described herein may be used forvarious wireless communication networks such as CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA,SC-FDMA, and other systems. The terms “system” and “network” are oftenused interchangeably. A CDMA system may implement a radio technologysuch as CDMA2000, Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), etc.CDMA2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95, and IS-856 standards. IS-2000 Releases 0and A are commonly referred to as CDMA2000 1×, 1×, etc. IS-856 (TIA-856)is commonly referred to as CDMA2000 1×EV-DO, High Rate Packet Data(HRPD), etc. UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) and other variants ofCDMA. A TDMA system may implement a radio technology such as GlobalSystem for Mobile Communications (GSM). An OFDMA system may implement aradio technology such as Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), Evolved UTRA(E-UTRA), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20,Flash-OFDM™, etc. UTRA and E-UTRA are part of Universal MobileTelecommunication System (UMTS). 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) andLTE-Advanced (LTE-A) are new releases of UMTS that use E-UTRA. UTRA,E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A, and GSM are described in documents from anorganization named “3rd Generation Partnership Project” (3GPP). CDMA2000and UMB are described in documents from an organization named “3rdGeneration Partnership Project 2” (3GPP2). The techniques describedherein may be used for the systems and radio technologies mentionedabove as well as other systems and radio technologies, includingcellular (e.g., LTE) communications over a shared radio frequencyspectrum band. The description below, however, describes an LTE/LTE-Asystem for purposes of example, and LTE terminology is used in much ofthe description below, although the techniques are applicable beyondLTE/LTE-A applications (e.g., to 5G networks or other next generationcommunication systems).

The following description provides examples, and is not limiting of thescope, applicability, or examples set forth in the claims. Changes maybe made in the function and arrangement of elements discussed withoutdeparting from the scope of the disclosure. Various examples may omit,substitute, or add various procedures or components as appropriate. Forinstance, the methods described may be performed in an order differentfrom that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, orcombined. Also, features described with respect to some examples may becombined in other examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, in accordance with various aspects of the presentdisclosure, an example wireless communication network 100 includes atleast one UE 110 with a modem 140 having a MCW HARQ component 150 thattransmits a retransmission for a HARQ process using multiple code words.The MCW HARQ component 150 may include an encoder 152 for encoding datainto code blocks grouped into code block groups, an allocation component154 for allocating code blocks and/or code block groups among multiplecode words, and an acknowledgment component 156 for receiving anacknowledgment (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) from a receivingdevice, e.g., a base station 105. Further, wireless communicationnetwork 100 includes at least one base station 105 with a modem 160having a MCW ACK component 170 that receives multiple code wordtransmissions and provides code block group level acknowledgements(ACK/NACK). Thus, according to the present disclosure, the UE 110 maytransmit an original transmission including code block groups using aHARQ process, receive a negative acknowledgement identifying at leastsome code block groups that were not correctly received, and retransmitthe code block groups using multiple code words in a proportionatelybalanced retransmission. In an aspect, the MCW HARQ component 150 may belocated in the base station 105 and the MCW ACK component 170 may belocated in the UE 110. The base station 105 may use the MCW HARQcomponent 150 transmit an original transmission including code blockgroups using a HARQ process, receive a negative acknowledgementidentifying at least some code block groups that were not correctlyreceived, and retransmit the code block groups using multiple code wordsin a proportionately balanced retransmission.

The encoder 152 may generate transport blocks including the multiplecode blocks grouped into code block groups. The encoder 152 may generatethe code blocks based on data to be transmitted such that the codeblocks each have specified size, for example, based on a modulation andcoding scheme (MCS). The encoder 152 may use a different MCS for eachcode word. When one or more code blocks or code block groups aredetermined to not be received correctly, the encoder 152 may determine apayload size of the code blocks or code block groups.

The allocation component 154 may allocate may allocate code blocks orcode block groups among code words according to one or more rules. Inscenarios where a HARQ retransmission includes no new transport block,the allocation component 154 may allocate code blocks or code blockgroups among the code words in a balanced manner. For example, theallocation component 154 may attempt to allocate the code blocks or codeblock groups for the retransmission proportionally with the payload ofthe original transmission. In a scenario where the HARQ retransmissionincludes a new transport block, the allocation component 154 mayallocate retransmitted code blocks or code block groups to a code wordfor retransmission and allocate new code blocks or code block groups toa code word for a new transport block.

The acknowledgment component 156 may receive an acknowledgment ornegative acknowledgment from a base station 105 and determine whether toretransmit one or more code blocks or code block groups on one or morecode words. The acknowledgment component 156 may interpret a negativeacknowledgment to determine which code blocks or code block groups werenot successfully received. The acknowledgment component 156 may alsotrack new data indicators (NDI) included in downlink control information(DCI) to determine whether code blocks or code block groups that werenot received correctly have been abandoned. For example, the basestation 105 may determine that a code block has been abandoned when noacknowledgment is received for the code block, but a NDI for thecorresponding code word indicates new data (e.g., has been flipped).

The wireless communication network 100 may include one or more basestations 105, one or more UEs 110, and a core network 115. The corenetwork 115 may provide user authentication, access authorization,tracking, internet protocol (IP) connectivity, and other access,routing, or mobility functions. The base stations 105 may interface withthe core network 115 through backhaul links 120 (e.g., S1, etc.). Thebase stations 105 may perform radio configuration and scheduling forcommunication with the UEs 110, or may operate under the control of abase station controller (not shown). In various examples, the basestations 105 may communicate, either directly or indirectly (e.g.,through core network 115), with one another over backhaul links 125(e.g., X1, etc.), which may be wired or wireless communication links.

The base stations 105 may wirelessly communicate with the UEs 110 viaone or more base station antennas. Each of the base stations 105 mayprovide communication coverage for a respective geographic coverage area130. In some examples, base stations 105 may be referred to as a basetransceiver station, a radio base station, an access point, an accessnode, a radio transceiver, a NodeB, eNodeB (eNB), gNB, Home NodeB, aHome eNodeB, a relay, or some other suitable terminology. The geographiccoverage area 130 for a base station 105 may be divided into sectors orcells making up only a portion of the coverage area (not shown). Thewireless communication network 100 may include base stations 105 ofdifferent types (e.g., macro base stations or small cell base stations,described below). Additionally, the plurality of base stations 105 mayoperate according to different ones of a plurality of communicationtechnologies (e.g., 5G (New Radio or “NR”), fourth generation (4G)/LTE,3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.), and thus there may be overlappinggeographic coverage areas 130 for different communication technologies.

In some examples, the wireless communication network 100 may be orinclude one or any combination of communication technologies, includinga NR or 5G technology, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) or LTE-Advanced(LTE-A) or MuLTEfire technology, a Wi-Fi technology, a Bluetoothtechnology, or any other long or short range wireless communicationtechnology. In LTE/LTE-A/MuLTEfire networks, the term evolved node B(eNB) may be generally used to describe the base stations 105, while theterm UE may be generally used to describe the UEs 110. The wirelesscommunication network 100 may be a heterogeneous technology network inwhich different types of eNBs provide coverage for various geographicalregions. For example, each eNB or base station 105 may providecommunication coverage for a macro cell, a small cell, or other types ofcell. The term “cell” is a 3GPP term that can be used to describe a basestation, a carrier or component carrier associated with a base station,or a coverage area (e.g., sector, etc.) of a carrier or base station,depending on context.

A macro cell may generally cover a relatively large geographic area(e.g., several kilometers in radius) and may allow unrestricted accessby UEs 110 with service subscriptions with the network provider.

A small cell may include a relative lower transmit-powered base station,as compared with a macro cell, that may operate in the same or differentfrequency bands (e.g., licensed, unlicensed, etc.) as macro cells. Smallcells may include pico cells, femto cells, and micro cells according tovarious examples. A pico cell, for example, may cover a small geographicarea and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 110 with servicesubscriptions with the network provider. A femto cell may also cover asmall geographic area (e.g., a home) and may provide restricted accessand/or unrestricted access by UEs 110 having an association with thefemto cell (e.g., in the restricted access case, UEs 110 in a closedsubscriber group (CSG) of the base station 105, which may include UEs110 for users in the home, and the like). An eNB for a macro cell may bereferred to as a macro eNB. An eNB for a small cell may be referred toas a small cell eNB, a pico eNB, a femto eNB, or a home eNB. An eNB maysupport one or multiple (e.g., two, three, four, and the like) cells(e.g., component carriers).

The communication networks that may accommodate some of the variousdisclosed examples may be packet-based networks that operate accordingto a layered protocol stack and data in the user plane may be based onthe IP. A user plane protocol stack (e.g., packet data convergenceprotocol (PDCP), radio link control (RLC), MAC, etc.), may performpacket segmentation and reassembly to communicate over logical channels.For example, a MAC layer may perform priority handling and multiplexingof logical channels into transport channels. The MAC layer may also useHARQ to provide retransmission at the MAC layer to improve linkefficiency. For example, the MCW HARQ component 150 may operate at theMAC layer. In the control plane, the RRC protocol layer may provideestablishment, configuration, and maintenance of an RRC connectionbetween a UE 110 and the base stations 105. The RRC protocol layer mayalso be used for core network 115 support of radio bearers for the userplane data. At the physical (PHY) layer, the transport channels may bemapped to physical channels.

The UEs 110 may be dispersed throughout the wireless communicationnetwork 100, and each UE 110 may be stationary or mobile. A UE 110 mayalso include or be referred to by those skilled in the art as a mobilestation, a subscriber station, a mobile unit, a subscriber unit, awireless unit, a remote unit, a mobile device, a wireless device, awireless communications device, a remote device, a mobile subscriberstation, an access terminal, a mobile terminal, a wireless terminal, aremote terminal, a handset, a user agent, a mobile client, a client, orsome other suitable terminology. A UE 110 may be a cellular phone, asmart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, awireless communication device, a handheld device, a tablet computer, alaptop computer, a cordless phone, a smart watch, a wireless local loop(WLL) station, an entertainment device, a vehicular component, acustomer premises equipment (CPE), or any device capable ofcommunicating in wireless communication network 100. Additionally, a UE110 may be Internet of Things (IoT) and/or machine-to-machine (M2M) typeof device, e.g., a low power, low data rate (relative to a wirelessphone, for example) type of device, that may in some aspects communicateinfrequently with wireless communication network 100 or other UEs. A UE110 may be able to communicate with various types of base stations 105and network equipment including macro eNBs, small cell eNBs, macro gNBs,small cell gNBs, relay base stations, and the like.

UE 110 may be configured to establish one or more wireless communicationlinks 135 with one or more base stations 105. The wireless communicationlinks 135 shown in wireless communication network 100 may carry uplink(UL) transmissions from a UE 110 to a base station 105, or downlink (DL)transmissions, from a base station 105 to a UE 110. The downlinktransmissions may also be called forward link transmissions while theuplink transmissions may also be called reverse link transmissions. Eachwireless communication link 135 may include one or more carriers, whereeach carrier may be a signal made up of multiple sub-carriers (e.g.,waveform signals of different frequencies) modulated according to thevarious radio technologies described above. Each modulated signal may besent on a different sub-carrier and may carry control information (e.g.,reference signals, control channels, etc.), overhead information, userdata, etc. In an aspect, the wireless communication links 135 maytransmit bidirectional communications using frequency division duplex(FDD) (e.g., using paired spectrum resources) or time division duplex(TDD) operation (e.g., using unpaired spectrum resources). Framestructures may be defined for FDD (e.g., frame structure type 1) and TDD(e.g., frame structure type 2). Moreover, in some aspects, the wirelesscommunication links 135 may represent one or more broadcast channels.

In some aspects of the wireless communication network 100, base stations105 or UEs 110 may include multiple antennas for employing antennadiversity schemes to improve communication quality and reliabilitybetween base stations 105 and UEs 110. Additionally or alternatively,base stations 105 or UEs 110 may employ multiple input multiple output(MIMO) techniques that may take advantage of multi-path environments totransmit multiple spatial layers carrying the same or different codeddata.

Wireless communication network 100 may support operation on multiplecells or carriers, a feature which may be referred to as carrieraggregation (CA) or multi-carrier operation. A carrier may also bereferred to as a component carrier (CC), a layer, a channel, etc. Theterms “carrier,” “component carrier,” “cell,” and “channel” may be usedinterchangeably herein. A UE 110 may be configured with multipledownlink CCs and one or more uplink CCs for carrier aggregation. Carrieraggregation may be used with both FDD and TDD component carriers. Thebase stations 105 and UEs 110 may use spectrum up to Y MHz (e.g., Y=5,10, 15, or 20 MHz) bandwidth per carrier allocated in a carrieraggregation of up to a total of Yx MHz (x=number of component carriers)used for transmission in each direction. The carriers may or may not beadjacent to each other. Allocation of carriers may be asymmetric withrespect to DL and UL (e.g., more or less carriers may be allocated forDL than for UL). The component carriers may include a primary componentcarrier and one or more secondary component carriers. A primarycomponent carrier may be referred to as a primary cell (PCell) and asecondary component carrier may be referred to as a secondary cell(SCell).

The wireless communication network 100 may further include base stations105 operating according to Wi-Fi technology, e.g., Wi-Fi access points,in communication with UEs 110 operating according to Wi-Fi technology,e.g., Wi-Fi stations (STAs) via communication links in an unlicensedfrequency spectrum (e.g., 5 GHz). When communicating in an unlicensedfrequency spectrum, the STAs and AP may perform a clear channelassessment (CCA) or listen before talk (LBT) procedure prior tocommunicating in order to determine whether the channel is available.

Additionally, one or more of base stations 105 and/or UEs 110 mayoperate according to a NR or 5G technology referred to as millimeterwave (mmW or mmwave) technology. For example, mmW technology includestransmissions in mmW frequencies and/or near mmW frequencies. Extremelyhigh frequency (EHF) is part of the radio frequency (RF) in theelectromagnetic spectrum. EHF has a range of 30 GHz to 300 GHz and awavelength between 1 millimeter and 10 millimeters. Radio waves in thisband may be referred to as a millimeter wave. Near mmW may extend downto a frequency of 3 GHz with a wavelength of 100 millimeters. Forexample, the super high frequency (SHF) band extends between 3 GHz and30 GHz, and may also be referred to as centimeter wave. Communicationsusing the mmW and/or near mmW radio frequency band has extremely highpath loss and a short range. As such, base stations 105 and/or UEs 110operating according to the mmW technology may utilize beamforming intheir transmissions to compensate for the extremely high path loss andshort range.

Referring to FIG. 2, an example HARQ process 200 includes a transmission210 by a transmitting device (e.g., the UE 110 or the base station 105),an acknowledgment 220 by a receiving device (e.g., the base station 105or the UE 110) with respect to the transmission 210, and aretransmission 230 by the transmitting device (e.g., the UE 110 or thebase station 105) of information in the transmission 210 that was notreceived by the receiving device. The retransmission 230 may maintainoriginal transport block and code word allocations of code block groupsfrom the transmission 210. The example HARQ process 200 may illustrate abaseline design extending LTE principles to NR. The transmission 210 andthe retransmission 230 may use MCW. MCW may allow transmission of twotransport blocks (TB) on the same HARQ process. In an aspect, MCW may beselected based on the rank of the transmission. The rank may refer to anumber of uncorrelated antennas. For example, if the rank is greaterthan 4, MCW transmission may be selected. If the rank is less than orequal to 4, a single code word transmission may be selected. In someaspects, a rank threshold other than 4 may be used. In the illustratedexample, the transmission 210 uses MCW with a first TB on the first codeword (CW0) including 20 CBG (0.0-0.19) and a second TB on the secondcode word (CW1) including 16 CBG (1.0-1.15). The number of CBG in eachcode word may depend on resources granted for the transmission (e.g., anumber of resource elements or resource element groups) and a modulationand coding scheme (MCS) assigned to the transmission.

The HARQ process 200 may include the acknowledgement (ACK) 220. In theillustrated example, the ACK 220 may indicate that at least one CBG ofthe transmission 210 was not received correctly (e.g., illustrated bycross-hatching). Accordingly, the ACK 220 may be considered, at least inpart, a negative acknowledgment (NACK). The ACK 220 may indicateACK/NACK status on a CBG level. For example, the ACK 220 may indicatethat CBGs 0.0 and 0.1 on CW0 were not received correctly and CBGs1.0-1.7 on CW 1 were not received correctly. In this case, theindication of a CBG “not being received correctly” may include anindication of a failure by the receiving device to properly decode acyclic redundancy check (CRC) contained in the transmission 210, andthus may include or imply a request for retransmission.

The retransmission 230 may retransmit the CBGs of the original TBs onthe original CWs. In the illustrated example, CW0 may include 2 CBGs(0.0 and 0.1) while CW1 may include 8 CBGs (1.0-1.7). Accordingly, thepayload sizes of the two CW are different. Moreover, the payload sizesare not proportionate. Whereas CW0 originally carried 20 CBG in thetransmission 210, CW0 carries only 2 CBG in the retransmission 230.Additionally, CW1 originally carried 16 CBG in the transmission 210 andcarries 8 CBG in the retransmission 230. Accordingly CW1 carries a muchhigher proportion of the CBG in the retransmission. The illustratedretransmission may be considered an inefficient use of the resources ofCW0. Moreover, CW0 cannot be scaled down by assigning fewer frequencyand time domain resources because CW0 and CW1 share the same frequencyand time domain resources.

Referring to FIG. 3, a HARQ process 300 includes transmission 310 by atransmitting device, an ACK 320 by a receiving device, and aretransmission 330 by the transmitting device that proportionatelybalances CBGs among the CWs. The retransmission 330 may include a CBGthat was initially transmitted on a first CW and is retransmitted on asecond CW. The HARQ process 300 may illustrate a scenario where there isno new TB transmission. This scenario may cover a case where both TBsfail (e.g., at least one CBG in each TB is not correctly received) and acase where only one TB fails but no new TB replaces the successful TB. Asecond scenario where one TB is received correctly and one TB is notcorrectly received, but a third TB replaces the correctly received TB isdiscussed further below with respect to FIG. 7.

The transmission 310 and the ACK 320 may be similar to the transmission210 and the ACK 220. Conceptually, the CWs may be treated as containersand the TBs may be viewed as content to be placed in the containers. TheCW and the TB may be logically separated. In an original transmission,the CW and TB concepts may align such that each TB is transmitted in arespective CW. In a retransmission, however, CBs or CBGs of a TB may beallocated to the available CWs proportionately according to payloadsize.

The MCW HARQ component 150 may be given an assignment (MCS, RBallocation, rank of the two CWs) for the retransmission, and maycalculate a nominal payload size. The payload size may be calculated bylook up using the same transport block size (TBS) table as an initialtransmission or following the same TBS calculation. In a first exampledesign, given the list of CBGs included in the retransmission, thepayload size of each CBG is known (e.g., determined in the initialtransmission). The allocation component 154 may allocate the CBGs to thetwo CWs proportionally according to the CBG payload size. The allocationcomponent 154 may enforce a rule that a single CBG may not cross codewords (e.g., one or more CBs transmitted on each CW). For example, asillustrated in FIG. 3, the retransmission 330 may include CBGs 0.0, 0.1,and 1.0-1.2 on CW0 and CBGs 1.3-1.7 on CW1. Accordingly at least onecode block (e.g., CBGs 1.0, 1.1, 1.2) is retransmitted on a differentcode word (CW0) in the retransmission 330 than in the originaltransmission 310 (CW1). Moreover, as illustrated, the retransmission 330is balanced because each CW includes 5 CBGs. Rate matching may be usedto fill coded bits of the allocated CBGs into the respective CWs (e.g.,according to MCS). For example, coded bits from the code blocks assignedinto the first code word and the second code word may be rate matchedinto available resource elements.

The allocation component 154 may proportionally allocate the CBs or CBGsbased on payload size. From the retransmission downlink controlinformation (DCI), the payload sizes for each CW may be calculated as P0and P1, respectively. P1 may be 0 if there is only one CW in theretransmission. The allocation component 154 may compute ratio of apayload for each CW to a total payload. For example, a first ratio (R0)may be calculated by R0=P0/(P0+P1) and a second ratio (R1) may becalculated by R1=P1/(P0+P1). The allocation component 154 maysequentially list all CBs or CBGs (a number N of not correctly receivedCBs or CBGs indicated by the ACK 320) for the payload size (known fromthe initial transmission). For example, the CBs or CBGs may be listed asX(0), X(1), . . . , X(N−1). In the illustrated example of FIG. 3, N maybe 10 and X may represent a payload size of the respective CBGs. In thecase where allocation component 154 allocates CBs, N may be the numberof CBGs times the number of CBs per CBG, or the total number of CBs inthe indicated CBGs. The allocation component 154 may segment the CBs orCBGs into two sets with N0 and N1 such that N0+N1=N; X(0)+X(1)+ . . .+X(N0−1)≈R0*(P0+P1); and X(N0)+X(N0+1)+ . . . +X(N−1)≈R1*(P0+P1). Inother words, the set N0 may include a subset of the CBs or CBGs having apayload size approximately equal to the first ratio times the totalpayload (first proportionate size) and the set N1 may include a secondmutually exclusive subset of the of the CBs or CBGs having a payloadsize approximately equal to the second ratio times the total payload(second proportionate size). Some rounding needed because the CB or CBGsizes may be discrete. Approximately equal may refer to the payload sizefor the subset being the closest to the proportionate size (e.g., addinganother CB or CBG would result in a greater difference from theproportionate size). The allocation component 154 may allocate the firstnumber of CBs or CBGs (N0) to CW0 and the remaining CBs or CBGs (N1) toCW1.

In an alternative aspect, the DCI may include a field indicating alocation of the split (e.g., a start from which CBG switch to CW1). Thefield may have a length of ceil(log 2(# of CBGs)).

The DCI for an MCW transmission or retransmission may have informationfor two TBs (MCS, new data indicator (NDI), redundancy versionidentifier (RVID)) similar to LTE. The DCI information may bere-interpreted/re-defined to separate TB and CW. As discussed above,conceptually the TB may be viewed as content and the CW may be viewed asa container. The MCS may be a CW level concept that indicates themodulation order for the transmission of the CW. The MCS also can beused to determine the nominal payload size of the CW. Accordingly, theDCI may indicate MCS on a per CW basis. The NDI is a TB level concept.The NDI should not flip (change values) in the scenario where new TBsare not mixed with retransmissions. RVID is a TB level concept. TheCBG/CB is associated with a TB in the initial transmission. The CB/CBGsin one TB is in one CW in the initial transmission, but may not be inthe later transmissions anymore. The RVID may be set to not changeduring a HARQ process. In an aspect, unlike in LTE, a base station maynot disable a CW using a defined MCS/RVID combination. Instead, the CBGindicator in the DCI may be used to disable a CW by indicating whichCBGs are included in the transmission, i.e., transmissions may bedisabled at the CBG level, not at CW level, if there is an explicitfield indicating a location of the split (e.g., a CBG bitmap in DCI).

Referring to FIG. 4, an example HARQ process 400 includes a transmission410 by a transmitting device, an ACK 420 by a receiving device, and aretransmission 430 by the transmitting device using proportionallybalanced code blocks. The original transmission 410 may include codeblocks grouped into code block groups. For example, each CBG may include4 CBs. CW0 may include 5 CBGs and CW1 may include 4 CBGs. The ACK 420may indicate reception status at a CBG level. For example, asillustrated CBG0 on CW0, CBG0 in CW1, and CBG1 in CW1 may not have beencorrectly received. Rather than allocating CBGs among the CWs, the CBsmay be allocated to the CWs. For example, the retransmission 430 mayinclude CBs 0.0-0.3, and 1.0-1.2 in CW0 and CBs 1.3-1.7 in CW1. Theallocation of CBs may provide finer degree of balancing. For example,the first payload ratio, R0, for the original transmission 410 may beapproximately 0.55 and the second payload ratio, R1, for the originaltransmission 410 may be approximately 0.45. Accordingly, the number ofCBs on CW0 may be approximately 0.55 times 12, which rounds to 7. Thenumber of CBs on CW1 may be approximately 0.45 times 12, which rounds to5. Therefore, although more CBs may be transmitted on CW0, the CWs maybe proportionately balanced because, for example, CW0 may have a higherMCS.

The above design is flexible enough to be generalized to support dynamicrank adaptation and adaptation between SCW and MCW. The above designhowever, may not support mixed transmission of one new TB and oneretransmission TB. For example, the case of the retransmission TB beinga CBG level retransmission (partial TB retransmission) with a new TB maynot be supported. Because the number of CWs solely depends on the rank,more information needs to be included in DCI to support mixing of newTBs and retransmissions. In an aspect, only one NDI may be needed toindicate a new TB instead of one NDI per TB.

Referring to FIG. 5, a HARQ process 500 may include a transmission 510by a transmitting device, an ACK 520 by a receiving device, and aretransmission 530 by the transmitting device. The HARQ process 500 mayuse a single CW for the retransmission 530. The transmission 510 and theACK 520 may be similar to the transmission 210 and the ACK 220. In thisexample, the rank may change between the transmission 510 and theretransmission 530 such that SCW is selected. In another example, thebase station may disable the second CW by indicating that all CBGsshould be retransmitted in CW0. In either case, the retransmission 530may include all of the incorrectly received CBGs (0.0, 0.1, and1.0-1.7). The CBGs 1.0-1.7 may change from CW1 from the originaltransmission 510 to CW0 for the retransmission 530.

Referring to FIG. 6, a HARQ process 600 may include a transmission 610by a transmitting device, an ACK 620 by a receiving device, and aretransmission 630 by the transmitting device. The HARQ process 600 mayretransmit CBGs from one of the CWs using two CWs. The transmission 610may be similar to the transmission 210. The ACK 620 may indicate thatall of the CBG on CW0 (0.0-0.19) were correctly received, but CBGs1.0-1.7 on CW1 were not correctly received. The retransmission 630 mayuse two CWs based on the rank, which may remain unchanged, so MCW may beselected for the retransmission 630. The retransmission 630 may includeall of the incorrectly received CBGs (1.0-1.7) split between the CWs.The CBGs 1.0-1.3 may change from CW1 from the original transmission 610to CW0 for the retransmission 630 while the CBGs 1.4-1.7 may beretransmitted on CW1.

Referring to FIG. 7, a HARQ process 700 may mix a new TB with aretransmission. That is, the MCW HARQ component 150 may start a new TBand retransmit some CBGs from another TB. The HARQ process 700 mayinclude a transmission 710 by a transmitting device, an ACK 720 by areceiving device, and a retransmission 730 by the transmitting device.The transmission 710 may be based on a DCI 715 and include a first TB712 and a second TB 714. The retransmission 730 may be based on a DCI735 and include a first TB 732 and a second TB 734. In this design, itis more important that the CBGs do not cross TB boundary. The DCI 715may include two NDIs 717, 718. The base station may flip one or both ofthe NDI 717, 718 to indicate that a new TB starts. For example, asillustrated, the NDI 717 may be flipped from a value of 0 to a value of1 in the NDI 737. When any NDI flips (one of the NDI flips or both NDIsflip), the MCW HARQ component 150 may enforce the rule that the CBGsfrom each CW do not cross boundary. In other words, when both NDIs arenot flipped, the MCW HARQ component 150 may ignore the boundary. If anNDI is flipped but from CBG bitmap of the ACK 720, the CBGs from thecorresponding TB did not finish transmission, the MCW HARQ component 150may consider those CBGs abandoned. For example, as illustrated, CBGs 0.0and 0.1 may be considered abandoned.

For robustness purposes, the new TB may use the same number of CBGs asthe TB it replaces. For example, the first TB 732 may use 20 CBGs as didthe first TB 712. It should be noted that the number of CBGs is not thetotal number of CBGs in transmission 710, but only the number of CBGsfrom the previous grouping in the first TB 712. Another option is to usethe configured total number of CBGs in transmission 710 minus theremaining number of CBGs in the second TB 734. This option allows moreCBGs in the new TB. For example, a total of 36 CBGs minus the 8retransmitted CBGs would allow 28 CBGs to be allocated among the firstTB 732 and the second TB 734.

As illustrated in FIG. 7, the transmission 710 may include a total of 36CBGs divided as 20 CBGs (0.0-0.19) in TB 712 on CW0 and 16 CBGs(1.0-1.15) in TB 714 on CW1. The transmission 710 may be based on theDCI 715 including the first NDI 716 and the second NDI 718, which mayeach have a value of 0. The ACK 720 may indicate that CBGs 0.0 and 0.1on CW0 were not received correctly and CBGs 1.0-1.7 on CW 1 were notreceived correctly. The MCW HARQ component 150 may also receive the DCI735 including the first NDI 736 having a value of 1 and the second NDI738 having a value of 0. Accordingly the first NDI 717, 737 may beflipped while the second NDI 718, 738 is not flipped. The MCW HARQcomponent 150 may determine to retransmit incorrectly received CBGs ofthe TB 714 and transmit a new TB on CW0, which corresponds to theflipped first NDI 736. The retransmission 730 may include a new TB 732on CW0 and a partial retransmission of TB 714 on CW1. As noted above,CBGs 0.0 and 0.1 from TB 712 may be considered abandoned.

Referring to FIG. 8, for example, a method 800 of wireless communicationin operating UE 110 according to the above-described aspects to performa MCW transmission includes one or more of the herein-defined actions.

For example, at 802, the method 800 includes transmitting an originaltransmission in a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, theoriginal transmission having a first transport block allocated to afirst code word and a second transport block allocated to a second codeword, each transport block including multiple code blocks grouped intocode block groups. For instance, in an aspect, UE 110 may execute MCWHARQ component 150 to transmit the original transmission in the HARQprocess. The original transmission 310, 410, 510, 610, 710 may have afirst transport block (e.g., TB 712) allocated to a first code word(e.g., CW0) and a second transport block (e.g., TB 714) allocated to asecond code word (e.g., CW1), each transport block including multiplecode blocks grouped into code block groups, as described herein. Morespecifically, the MCW HARQ component 150 may execute the encoder 152 togenerate the transport blocks including the multiple code blocks groupedinto code block groups. The allocation component 154 may allocate thecode block groups to the first code word and the second code word. TheMCW HARQ component 150 of modem 140 may communicate with transceiver1002 (e.g., transmitter 1008) and RF front end 1088 and antennas 1065 totake the encoded transport blocks and transmit a wireless signal.

At 804, the method 800 may include receiving a negative acknowledgementindicating that a subset of the code block groups were not successfullyreceived. In an aspect, for example, the UE 110 may execute MCW HARQcomponent 150 to receive the negative acknowledgement indicating that asubset of the code block groups were not successfully received. Morespecifically, the MCW HARQ component 150 may execute the acknowledgmentcomponent 156 to receive the negative acknowledgment 320, 420, 520, 620,720 indicating that a subset of the code block groups were notsuccessfully received. For example, the MCW HARQ component 150 of modem140 may communicate with the transceiver 1002 (e.g., receiver 1006), RFfront end 1088, and antennas 1065 to convert a radio-frequency signalreceived at antennas 1065 to a baseband signal and decode the basebandsignal to determine whether the signal includes a negativeacknowledgment. The acknowledgment component 156 may interpret thenegative acknowledgment 320, 420, 520, 620, 720 to determine which codeblock groups should be included in the retransmission based on aretransmission grant.

At 806, the method 800 may optionally include receiving downlink controlinformation (DCI) for the retransmission including two new dataindicators (NDI). For instance, the UE 110 may execute the MCW HARQcomponent 150 to receive the DCI 735 including NDIs 737, 738 for theretransmission 730. For example, the MCW HARQ component 150 of modem 140may communicate with the transceiver 1002 (e.g., receiver 1006), RFfront end 1088, and antennas 1065 to convert a radio-frequency signalreceived at antennas 1065 to a baseband signal and decode the basebandsignal to identify the DCI 735 including NDIs 737, 738. The MCW HARQcomponent 150 may check if the NDIs flip. If neither of them flip, theMCW HARQ component 150 may retransmit one or both TBs in thetransmission 710 without mixing a new transmission in the HARQ process.The MCW HARQ component 150 may allow CBGs/CBs from one TB to be placedin the other CW. If one of the NDIs flip, or both flip, the MCW HARQcomponent 150 may enforce a rule that the TB stays within CW. Forexample, where one of the NDI 737, 738 has a same value as acorresponding NDI 717, 718 for the original transmission and the otherof the NDI has a different value than a corresponding NDI for theoriginal transmission, a new TB may be transmitted. If both NDIs flip,the CBG grouping may start afresh given the configured CBG number.

At 808, the method 800 may include retransmitting the subset of the codeblock groups on at least one of the first code word and the second codeword in a retransmission in the HARQ process. At least one code block isretransmitted on a different code word in the retransmission than in theoriginal transmission. For instance, the UE 110 may execute the MCW HARQcomponent 150 to retransmit the subset of the code block groups on atleast one of the first code word and the second code word in theretransmission in the HARQ process. More specifically, the MCW HARQcomponent 150 may execute the allocation component 154 to allocate thesubset of the code block groups to the first code word and/or the secondcode word such that at least one code block is retransmitted on adifferent code word in the retransmission 330, 430, 530, 630, 730 thanin the original transmission 310, 410, 510, 610, 710. In an aspect, theallocation component 154 may allocate the subset of the code blockgroups proportionally among the code words. Proportionally allocatingthe code block groups or code blocks thereof may increase theprobability that the code blocks in the retransmission 330, 430, 530,630, 730 will be successfully received.

Referring to FIG. 9, for example, further details of the block 808 foroperating UE 110 according to the above-described aspects retransmit aMCW transmission in a HARQ process include one or more of theherein-defined actions.

At 902, block 808 may include calculating a nominal payload size of thesubset of the code block groups. In an aspect, for example, the MCW HARQcomponent 150 may execute the encoder 152 to calculate the nominalpayload size of the subset of the code block groups according to thenominal payload size of the code block groups in the originaltransmission. The nominal payload size may be calculated based on thetransport block size (TBS), which may be the same as the TBS for theoriginal transmission (assuming no change in MCS) or recalculated basedon the MCS. The TBS may be, for example, a number of bits per symbol(based on MCS) times a number of symbols per resource element, times anumber of allocated resource elements, times a rank of the code word.

At 904, block 808 may optionally include allocating the subset of codeblock groups to the first code word and the second code wordproportionately according to the nominal payload size. For example, theMCW HARQ component 150 may execute the allocation component 154 toallocate the subset of code block groups to the first code word and thesecond code word proportionately according to the nominal payload sizeas illustrated in FIG. 3. The allocation component 154 may allocate thecode block groups proportionately by determining a ratio (e.g., thepercentage of total bits carried on each code word) of the nominalpayload size for each codeword to a total payload size. The allocationcomponent 154 may then allocate the subset of code block groups to eachcodeword based on the ratio. For example, the allocation component 154may multiply the number of code block groups times the ratio for eachcode word to determine the number of code block groups for the codeword, rounding to a whole number of code block groups per code word. Theallocation component 154 may then sequentially allocate the number ofcode block groups from the subset of code block groups to the codewords.

At 906, block 808 may optionally include allocating code blocks withinthe subset of code block groups to the first code word and the secondcode word proportionately according to a control block payload size. Forexample, the MCW HARQ component 150 may execute the allocation component154 to allocate code blocks within the subset of code block groups tothe first code word and the second code word proportionately accordingto a control block payload size as illustrated in FIG. 4. Similar toblock 904, the allocation component 154 may allocate the code blocksproportionately by determining a ratio (e.g., the percentage of totalbits carried on each code word) of the nominal payload size for eachcodeword to a total payload size. The allocation component 154 may thenallocate the code blocks in the subset of code block groups to eachcodeword based on the ratio. For example, the allocation component 154may multiply the number of code blocks times the ratio for each codeword to determine the number of code blocks for the code word, roundingto a whole number of code blocks per code word. The allocation component154 may then sequentially allocate the number of code blocks from thecode blocks in the subset of code block groups to the code words. A codeblock group may be split between two code words.

At 908, the block 808 may optionally include rate matching to fill thecode blocks of the first code word or the second code word with the atleast one code block group. For example, the MCW HARQ component 150 mayperform rate matching to fill the code blocks of the first code word orthe second code word with the at least one code block group.

Referring to FIG. 10, one example of an implementation of UE 110 mayinclude a variety of components, some of which have already beendescribed above, but including components such as one or more processors1012 and memory 1016 and transceiver 1002 in communication via one ormore buses 1044, which may operate in conjunction with modem 140 and MCWHARQ component 150 to enable one or more of the functions describedherein related to retransmission using multiple code words. Further, theone or more processors 1012, modem 1014, memory 1016, transceiver 1002,RF front end 1088 and one or more antennas 1086, may be configured tosupport voice and/or data calls (simultaneously or non-simultaneously)in one or more radio access technologies.

In an aspect, the one or more processors 1012 can include a modem 1014that uses one or more modem processors. The various functions related toMCW HARQ component 150 may be included in modem 140 and/or processors1012 and, in an aspect, can be executed by a single processor, while inother aspects, different ones of the functions may be executed by acombination of two or more different processors. For example, in anaspect, the one or more processors 1012 may include any one or anycombination of a modem processor, or a baseband processor, or a digitalsignal processor, or a transmit processor, or a receiver processor, or atransceiver processor associated with transceiver 1002. In otheraspects, some of the features of the one or more processors 1012 and/ormodem 140 associated with MCW HARQ component 150 may be performed bytransceiver 1002.

Also, memory 1016 may be configured to store data used herein and/orlocal versions of applications 1075 or MCW HARQ component 150 and/or oneor more of its subcomponents being executed by at least one processor1012. Memory 1016 can include any type of computer-readable mediumusable by a computer or at least one processor 1012, such as randomaccess memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), tapes, magnetic discs,optical discs, volatile memory, non-volatile memory, and any combinationthereof. In an aspect, for example, memory 1016 may be a non-transitorycomputer-readable storage medium that stores one or morecomputer-executable codes defining MCW HARQ component 150 and/or one ormore of its subcomponents, and/or data associated therewith, when UE 110is operating at least one processor 1012 to execute MCW HARQ component150 and/or one or more of its subcomponents.

Transceiver 1002 may include at least one receiver 1006 and at least onetransmitter 1008. Receiver 1006 may include hardware, firmware, and/orsoftware code executable by a processor for receiving data, the codecomprising instructions and being stored in a memory (e.g.,computer-readable medium). Receiver 1006 may be, for example, a radiofrequency (RF) receiver. In an aspect, receiver 1006 may receive signalstransmitted by at least one base station 105. Additionally, receiver1006 may process such received signals, and also may obtain measurementsof the signals, such as, but not limited to, Ec/Io, SNR, RSRP, RSSI,etc. Transmitter 1008 may include hardware, firmware, and/or softwarecode executable by a processor for transmitting data, the codecomprising instructions and being stored in a memory (e.g.,computer-readable medium). A suitable example of transmitter 1008 mayincluding, but is not limited to, an RF transmitter.

Moreover, in an aspect, UE 110 may include RF front end 1088, which mayoperate in communication with one or more antennas 1065 and transceiver1002 for receiving and transmitting radio transmissions, for example,wireless communications transmitted by at least one base station 105 orwireless transmissions transmitted by UE 110. RF front end 1088 may beconnected to one or more antennas 1065 and can include one or morelow-noise amplifiers (LNAs) 1090, one or more switches 1092, one or morepower amplifiers (PAs) 1098, and one or more filters 1096 fortransmitting and receiving RF signals.

In an aspect, LNA 1090 can amplify a received signal at a desired outputlevel. In an aspect, each LNA 1090 may have a specified minimum andmaximum gain values. In an aspect, RF front end 1088 may use one or moreswitches 1092 to select a particular LNA 1090 and its specified gainvalue based on a desired gain value for a particular application.

Further, for example, one or more PA(s) 1098 may be used by RF front end1088 to amplify a signal for an RF output at a desired output powerlevel. In an aspect, each PA 1098 may have specified minimum and maximumgain values. In an aspect, RF front end 1088 may use one or moreswitches 1092 to select a particular PA 1098 and a correspondingspecified gain value based on a desired gain value for a particularapplication.

Also, for example, one or more filters 1096 can be used by RF front end1088 to filter a received signal to obtain an input RF signal.Similarly, in an aspect, for example, a respective filter 1096 can beused to filter an output from a respective PA 1098 to produce an outputsignal for transmission. In an aspect, each filter 1096 can be connectedto a specific LNA 1090 and/or PA 1098. In an aspect, RF front end 1088can use one or more switches 1092 to select a transmit or receive pathusing a specified filter 1096, LNA 1090, and/or PA 1098, based on aconfiguration as specified by transceiver 1002 and/or processor 1012.

As such, transceiver 1002 may be configured to transmit and receivewireless signals through one or more antennas 1065 via RF front end1088. In an aspect, transceiver may be tuned to operate at specifiedfrequencies such that UE 110 can communicate with, for example, one ormore base stations 105 or one or more cells associated with one or morebase stations 105. In an aspect, for example, modem 140 can configuretransceiver 1002 to operate at a specified frequency and power levelbased on the UE configuration of the UE 110 and the communicationprotocol used by modem 140.

In an aspect, modem 140 can be a multiband-multimode modem, which canprocess digital data and communicate with transceiver 1002 such that thedigital data is sent and received using transceiver 1002. In an aspect,modem 140 can be multiband and be configured to support multiplefrequency bands for a specific communications protocol. In an aspect,modem 140 can be multimode and be configured to support multipleoperating networks and communications protocols. In an aspect, modem 140can control one or more components of UE 110 (e.g., RF front end 1088,transceiver 1002) to enable transmission and/or reception of signalsfrom the network based on a specified modem configuration. In an aspect,the modem configuration can be based on the mode of the modem and thefrequency band in use. In another aspect, the modem configuration can bebased on UE configuration information associated with UE 110 as providedby the network during cell selection and/or cell reselection.

Referring to FIG. 11, one example of an implementation of base station105 may include a variety of components, some of which have already beendescribed above, but including components such as one or more processors1112 and memory 1116 and transceiver 1102 in communication via one ormore buses 1144, which may operate in conjunction with modem 160 and MCWACK component 170 to enable one or more of the functions describedherein related to acknowledging receipt of code block groups in an MCWHARQ transmission.

The transceiver 1102, receiver 1106, transmitter 1108, one or moreprocessors 1112, memory 1116, applications 1175, buses 1144, RF frontend 1188, LNAs 1190, switches 1192, filters 1196, PAs 1198, and one ormore antennas 1165 may be the same as or similar to the correspondingcomponents of UE 110, as described above, but configured or otherwiseprogrammed for base station operations as opposed to UE operations.

The above detailed description set forth above in connection with theappended drawings describes examples and does not represent the onlyexamples that may be implemented or that are within the scope of theclaims. The term “example,” when used in this description, means“serving as an example, instance, or illustration,” and not “preferred”or “advantageous over other examples.” The detailed description includesspecific details for the purpose of providing an understanding of thedescribed techniques. These techniques, however, may be practicedwithout these specific details. In some instances, well-known structuresand apparatuses are shown in block diagram form in order to avoidobscuring the concepts of the described examples.

Information and signals may be represented using any of a variety ofdifferent technologies and techniques. For example, data, instructions,commands, information, signals, bits, symbols, and chips that may bereferenced throughout the above description may be represented byvoltages, currents, electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields or particles,optical fields or particles, computer-executable code or instructionsstored on a computer-readable medium, or any combination thereof.

The various illustrative blocks and components described in connectionwith the disclosure herein may be implemented or performed with aspecially-programmed device, such as but not limited to a processor, adigital signal processor (DSP), an ASIC, a FPGA or other programmablelogic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic, a discrete hardwarecomponent, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functionsdescribed herein. A specially-programmed processor may be amicroprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be anyconventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine. Aspecially-programmed processor may also be implemented as a combinationof computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor,multiple microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunctionwith a DSP core, or any other such configuration.

The functions described herein may be implemented in hardware, softwareexecuted by a processor, firmware, or any combination thereof. Ifimplemented in software executed by a processor, the functions may bestored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on anon-transitory computer-readable medium. Other examples andimplementations are within the scope and spirit of the disclosure andappended claims. For example, due to the nature of software, functionsdescribed above can be implemented using software executed by aspecially programmed processor, hardware, firmware, hardwiring, orcombinations of any of these. Features implementing functions may alsobe physically located at various positions, including being distributedsuch that portions of functions are implemented at different physicallocations. Also, as used herein, including in the claims, “or” as usedin a list of items prefaced by “at least one of” indicates a disjunctivelist such that, for example, a list of “at least one of A, B, or C”means A or B or C or AB or AC or BC or ABC (i.e., A and B and C).

Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media andcommunication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of acomputer program from one place to another. A storage medium may be anyavailable medium that can be accessed by a general purpose or specialpurpose computer. By way of example, and not limitation,computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or otheroptical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storagedevices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desiredprogram code means in the form of instructions or data structures andthat can be accessed by a general-purpose or special-purpose computer,or a general-purpose or special-purpose processor. Also, any connectionis properly termed a computer-readable medium. For example, if thesoftware is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote sourceusing a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digitalsubscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio,and microwave, then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair,DSL, or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave areincluded in the definition of medium. Disk and disc, as used herein,include compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatiledisc (DVD), floppy disk and Blu-ray disc where disks usually reproducedata magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers.Combinations of the above are also included within the scope ofcomputer-readable media.

The previous description of the disclosure is provided to enable aperson skilled in the art to make or use the disclosure. Variousmodifications to the disclosure will be readily apparent to thoseskilled in the art, and the common principles defined herein may beapplied to other variations without departing from the spirit or scopeof the disclosure. Furthermore, although elements of the describedaspects and/or embodiments may be described or claimed in the singular,the plural is contemplated unless limitation to the singular isexplicitly stated. Additionally, all or a portion of any aspect and/orembodiment may be utilized with all or a portion of any other aspectand/or embodiment, unless stated otherwise. Thus, the disclosure is notto be limited to the examples and designs described herein but is to beaccorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novelfeatures disclosed herein.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of wireless communications, comprising:transmitting an original transmission in a hybrid automatic repeatrequest (HARQ) process, the original transmission having a firsttransport block allocated to a first code word and a second transportblock allocated to a second code word, each transport block includingmultiple code blocks grouped into code block groups; receiving anegative acknowledgment indicating that a subset of the code blockgroups was not successfully received; and retransmitting the subset ofthe code block groups on at least one of the first code word or thesecond code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process, wherein atleast one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in theretransmission than in the original transmission.
 2. The method of claim1, wherein the retransmission includes at least one code block groupfrom the first code word and at least one code block group from thesecond code word.
 3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving thenegative acknowledgment includes determining a list of code block groupsto be included in the retransmission based on a retransmission grant,wherein the retransmitting comprises calculating a nominal payload sizeof code words in the list of code block groups to be included in theretransmission.
 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the retransmittingcomprises allocating the subset of code block groups to the first codeword and the second code word proportionately according to the nominalpayload size of each code word in the retransmission.
 5. The method ofclaim 3, wherein the retransmitting comprises allocating code blockswithin the subset of code block groups to the first code word and thesecond code word proportionately according to the nominal payload sizeof each code word in the retransmission.
 6. The method of claim 2,further comprising rate matching to fill coded bits from the code blocksassigned into the first code word and the second code word intoavailable resource elements of the first code word and the second codeword.
 7. The method of claim 2, wherein the retransmitting comprises:computing a first ratio of a payload for the first code word to a totalpayload and a second ratio of a payload for the second code word to thetotal payload; assigning, sequentially, a first subset of the code blockgroups to the first code word, wherein a first sub-total payload size ofthe first subset of the code block groups is approximately equal to thefirst ratio times the total payload; and assigning, sequentially, asecond subset of the code block groups to the second code word, whereina second sub-total payload size of the second subset of the code blockgroups is approximately equal to the second ratio times the totalpayload size.
 8. The method of claim 2, wherein the retransmittingcomprises: receiving an indication of code block groups or code blocksto be allocated to the first code word; and allocating the code blockgroups or code blocks according to the indication.
 9. The method ofclaim 1, wherein the retransmission includes a new transport block andat least one retransmission code block group from the first code word orfrom the second code word.
 10. The method of claim 9, further comprisingreceiving a downlink control information (DCI) for the retransmissionincluding two new data indicators (NDI), wherein one of the NDI has asame value as a corresponding NDI for the original transmission and theother of the NDI has a different value than a corresponding NDI for theoriginal transmission to indicate a corresponding transport block isnew.
 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the at least one retransmissioncode block group is transmitted in the same code word as when the codeblock group was originally transmitted and new code blocks of the newtransport block are placed in the other code word corresponding to adifferent value for the NDI.
 12. The method of claim 9, wherein the newtransport block includes a same number of code block groups as thecorresponding first transport block or the second transport block. 13.An apparatus, comprising: a memory; a transceiver; and a processor incommunication with the memory and the transceiver, wherein the processoris configured to: transmit an original transmission in a hybridautomatic repeat request (HARQ) process, the original transmissionhaving a first transport block allocated to a first code word and asecond transport block allocated to a second code word, each transportblock including multiple code blocks grouped into code block groups;receive a negative acknowledgment indicating that a subset of the codeblock groups was not successfully received; and retransmit the subset ofthe code block groups on at least one of the first code word or thesecond code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process, wherein atleast one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in theretransmission than in the original transmission.
 14. The apparatus ofclaim 13, wherein the retransmission includes at least one code blockgroup from the first code word and at least one code block group fromthe second code word.
 15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein theprocessor is configured to determine a list of code block groups to beincluded in the retransmission based on a retransmission grant andcalculate a nominal payload size of code words in the list of code blockgroups to be included in the retransmission.
 16. The apparatus of claim15, wherein the processor is configured to allocate the subset of codeblock groups to the first code word and the second code wordproportionately according to the nominal payload size of each code wordin the retransmission.
 17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein theprocessor is configured to allocate code blocks within the subset ofcode block groups to the first code word and the second code wordproportionately according to the nominal payload size of each code wordin the retransmission.
 18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein theprocessor is configured to rate match to fill coded bits from the codeblocks assigned into the first code word and the second code word intoavailable resource elements of the first code word and the second codeword.
 19. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processor is configuredto: compute a first ratio of a payload for the first code word to atotal payload and a second ratio of a payload for the second code wordto the total payload; assign, sequentially, a first subset of the codeblock groups to the first code word, wherein a first sub-total payloadsize of the first subset of the code block groups is approximately equalto the first ratio times the total payload; and assign, sequentially, asecond subset of the code block groups to the second code word, whereina second sub-total payload size of the second subset of the code blockgroups is approximately equal to the second ratio times the totalpayload size.
 20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processor isconfigured to: receive an indication of code block groups or code blocksto be allocated to the first code word; and allocate the code blockgroups or code blocks according to the indication.
 21. The apparatus ofclaim 13, wherein the retransmission includes a new transport block andat least one retransmission code block group from the first code word orfrom the second code word.
 22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein theprocessor is configured to receive a downlink control information (DCI)for the retransmission including two new data indicators (NDI), whereinone of the NDI has a same value as a corresponding NDI for the originaltransmission and the other of the NDI has a different value than acorresponding NDI for the original transmission to indicate that acorresponding transport block is new.
 23. The apparatus of claim 22,wherein the at least one retransmission code block group is transmittedin the same code word as when the code block group was originallytransmitted and new code blocks of the new transport block are placed inthe other code word corresponding to the different value for the NDI.24. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the new transport block includesa same number of code block groups as the corresponding first transportblock or the second transport block.
 25. An apparatus, comprising: meansfor transmitting an original transmission in a hybrid automatic repeatrequest (HARQ) process, the original transmission having a firsttransport block allocated to a first code word and a second transportblock allocated to a second code word, each transport block includingmultiple code blocks grouped into code block groups; means for receivinga negative acknowledgment indicating that a subset of the code blockgroups was not successfully received; and means for retransmitting thesubset of the code block groups on at least one of the first code wordor the second code word in a retransmission in the HARQ process, whereinat least one code block is retransmitted on a different code word in theretransmission than in the original transmission.
 26. The apparatus ofclaim 25, wherein the retransmission includes at least one code blockgroup from the first code word and at least one code block group fromthe second code word.
 27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein means forreceiving the negative acknowledgment is configured to determine a listof code block groups to be included in the retransmission based on aretransmission grant, and wherein the means for retransmitting isconfigured to calculate a nominal payload size of code words in the listof code block groups to be included in the retransmission.
 28. Theapparatus of claim 25, wherein the retransmission includes a newtransport block and at least one retransmission code block group fromthe first code word or from the second code word.
 29. The apparatus ofclaim 25, further comprising means for receiving a downlink controlinformation (DCI) for the retransmission including two new dataindicators (NDI), wherein one of the NDI has a same value as acorresponding NDI for the original transmission and the other of the NDIhas a different value than a corresponding NDI for the originaltransmission to indicate a corresponding transport block is new.
 30. Acomputer-readable medium storing computer code executable by a processorfor wireless communications, the computer-readable medium comprisingcode to: transmit an original transmission in a hybrid automatic repeatrequest (HARQ) process, the original transmission having a firsttransport block allocated to a first code word and a second transportblock allocated to a second code word, each transport block includingmultiple code blocks grouped into code block groups; receive a negativeacknowledgment indicating that a subset of the code block groups was notsuccessfully received; and retransmit the subset of the code blockgroups on at least one of the first code word or the second code word ina retransmission in the HARQ process, wherein at least one code block isretransmitted on a different code word in the retransmission than in theoriginal transmission.